[Sigmet-officers] Panel proposal for ASIST2012

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

This sounds like a great idea and something certainly in keeping with
our other activities.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Judit Bar-Ilan <barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I suggest that SIGMET proposes a panel for this year's ASIST conference.
> Last year we proposed a panel on the uses of informetrics and endorsed
> another panel on teaching informetrics. There was a third panel on
> alternative metrics, but we did not endorse/support that one.
>
> This year I suggest that we propose a panel on information visualization.
> This would fit Track 2 (Interaction). It seems to me that many members of
> our SIG could contribute to such a panel, but we should not have more than 4
> or maximum 5 presenters. The instructions for panel submission say:
> Proposals for panels are invited on topics that include emerging
> cutting-edge research and design, analyses of emerging trends, opinions on
> controversial issues, analyses of tools and techniques, and contrasting
> viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas.
>
> So I think that the panel could concentrate on tool and techniques, with
> each presenter concentrating on a different tool.
> The deadline for submissions is April 30.
> Let me know your thoughts on this.
>
> Regards,
> Judit
>
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> Judit Bar-Ilan
> Head of Department
> Department of Information Science
> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
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> email: Judit.Bar-Ilan at biu.ac.il
>
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto